Evaluating eParticipation sophistication of regional authorities websites: The case of Greece and Spain

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5694 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 67-77

  Panopoulou, Eleni ^a   Tambouris, Efthimios ^a   Zotou, Maria ^a   Tarabanis, Konstantinos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

EParticipation; Greece; Regional authority; Spain; Website evaluation

Indexed keywords

EPARTICIPATION; GREECE; REGIONAL AUTHORITY; SPAIN; WEBSITE EVALUATION;

INTERNET; SURVEYS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 70350600939     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03781-8_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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